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Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) offer capabilities for quick adjustment of
production capacity and functionality in response to sudden changes in market conditions. Both at
the system and at the cell level exception events occur dynamically and unpredictably during the
production process. These exceptions interrupt the production process by causing errors in the
schedule plan. Error/ exception handling is the policy how to deal with errors caused by the
occurrence of out-of-ordinary events. Author explores the new strategies to handling error events
and proposes an intelligent control structure for real-time error handling, and illustrates the
reconfiguration ability is the new crucial technological factor enabling new strategies to handle
out-of-ordinary events of the production process.

Abstract: With the rapid development of enterprise informationization, the application of decision support system has been the focus of interest of recent studies due to its high-efficiency. In order to realize the decision support of enterprise production management, we established integration model of production information based on heterogeneous databases, designed data mart of production management, in the design of data mart, we discussed the data model and the realization process of the data mart. We put forward the architecture of the system, studied the decision scheme, layered structure and decision rules, and then developed the enterprise production management decision support system. Enterprise production efficiency can be improved through the application of the system.

Abstract: As the unpredictability of market needs and the mass customization trends increase, employing reconfigurable industrial robotic work cells becomes a viable solution for manufacturers. A reconfigurable manufacturing system is a system designed for a quick change in structure, both in hardware and software, in order to rapidly adjust production capacity and functionalities. However, the approach is quite general; a simple search within scientific literature, patent databases or the world-wide-web returns thousands of results, covering a time period from the 80s to date. Among the results, different approaches on reconfigurable industrial robotic work cell implementations can be easily noticed. This paper surveys the literature in reconfigurable industrial robotic work cells, aiming to identify, besides the most important approaches on this topic, also performance criteria associated to robotic workcell reconfigurability and means of measuring the reconfigurability degree of such cells. The survey also aims to identify command and control architectures used to achieve various levels of reconfigurability. The survey was conducted by using a specific search methodology, which is also presented in the paper.